New Microcode to further enhance AMD Ryzen memory compatibility

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/07/2017 03:10 PM | source: | 45 comment(s)

AMD will be releasing a new AGESA microcode update this month, this is now being worked on by the motherboard manufacturers. The new microcode (which is located in your BIOS) will further enhance memory compatibility.

This news has reached us by way of Gigabyte. A technical marketing employee has been explaining that AGESA 1.0.0.6 for Ryzen processors will enhance memory compatibility with high clocked DIMMs and would open up 20 new memory registers.

Gigabyte employee: Wish I could drop in and give you guys a new BIOS but I don't have them yet. Latest word is they are working on a new set with AGESA 1006.
Just to recap these are the issue being worked on:

For those looking for IOMMU fixes we are hopefully going to have an option to force boot off a specific PCIe slot. Its not the grouping fix, but a work around for now.

Disable LAN (Per request)

Disable Audio (Per request)

"ROM Image update" (Being worked on with AMI, no ETA)

Cold boot / Wont boot. Have to re-flash BIOS. (people have referred to this as "soft brick")

AGESA 1006 - improve memory (Got high hopes for this one. Going to enable 20+ memory register)

That means there will be another 20 memory kits added and supported. AMD back in April already released AGESA 1.0.0.4a which brought slightly better performance, lower memory latency and also increased memory support as well as faster bootup (post) times.

As you can see AGESA 1006 is in the works and should see the light of day with initial Beta BIOS updates soon. Btw the Gigabyte employee mentions AGESA 1006 twice, he could actually mean 1005 as the last AGESA release from AMD was 1004a.

Source: Gigabyte via hwi & reddit

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PrMinisterGR
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#5435783 Posted on: 05/25/2017 04:58 PM

I understand that part. The Kernel being the part that handles it all. But it can give errors that can't be fixed by microcode. I'm delving a little deeper. I could be wrong though.....

What is giving errors? Did I misread something? What's the issue you're facing?

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#5435785 Posted on: 05/25/2017 05:02 PM

What is giving errors? Did I misread something? What's the issue you're facing?

Process errors. But it's probably not related to microcode per-say. That would normally be pipe not being closed or something along those lines

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#5435786 Posted on: 05/25/2017 05:08 PM

Process errors. But it's probably not related to microcode per-say. That would normally be pipe not being closed or something along those lines

What kind of process errors? Which OS? Where do you see them?

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#5435789 Posted on: 05/25/2017 05:10 PM

What kind of process errors? Which OS? Where do you see them?

It's not Windows. So it's a little bit different. I'll be able to sort it out in given time.

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#5435806 Posted on: 05/25/2017 05:42 PM

Thank goodness for those 4c/4t i5's that are still being sold as mainstream chips. Definitely a good deal in 2017, not overpriced and can soundly beat AMD's R5 & R7 offerings without much effort.

The red team really need to step up their game as we were all promised that Ryzen would solve world hunger and bring about world peace! what is this? the 2nd or 3rd month of a brand new CPU architecture release or something??
I was considering going with Ryzen, but after seeing how an i5-7600K (4c/4t) beat AMD's 1800X (8c/16t) in the majority of games while also being $300 cheaper than the 1800X, I thought to myself, duck it.

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